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How “nix” trended on Hacker News

“Nix” was mentioned 31,866 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in May 2023 with 625 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “nix” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “nix”

1. 1.What Is Nix? 598 points · 333 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020) 528 points · 260 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder 484 points · 303 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.What is Nix and why you should try it 461 points · 193 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit 383 points · 235 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix 382 points · 192 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix 379 points · 156 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Nix as OS X Package Manager 357 points · 204 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts 348 points · 328 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Will Nix Overtake Docker? 327 points · 250 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.How to Learn Nix 322 points · 154 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Nix: An idea whose time has come 310 points · 307 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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